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Story of a Poem: A Memoir
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“A document of not only how to make a poem, but how to live in a world where language often fails us.” —Ada Limón, U.S. Poet Laureate
Matthew Zapruder had an idea: to write a poem as slowly and intentionally as possible, to preserve its drafts, and record the painstaking, elusively transcendent stuff of its construction. It would be the end cap to a new collection of poetry, and a means to process modern American life in a time of political turmoil, mega fires, and sobriety. What Zapruder di...